1. Indianapolis police were grieving and reeling as word spread that two of their own were dead — a husband and wife who had divorced, and died in a murder-suicide. IMPD Police Chief Rick Hite said the agency began investigating Sgt. Ryan Anders on March 12, more than a month before he shot officer Kim Carmack, who had obtained a protective order, at a home on the Far Westside.

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Police activity is seen April 17, 2014, at a home (right) in the 2400 block of Inishmore Court. A murder-suicide there involved two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department personnel. Sgt. Ryan Anders and Officer Kim Carmack were found dead about 5:40 p.m. inside the home. Anders and Carmack were an estranged husband and wife. Brent Drinkut/The Star

Police activity is seen April 17 in the 2400 block of Inishmore Court. A murder-suicide there involved two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department personnel. Sgt. Ryan Anders and Officer Kim Carmack were found dead about 5:40 p.m. inside the home. Brent Drinkut/The Star

A solitary IMPD car sits at the end of a cul de sac where Sgt. Ryan Anders had killed fellow officer and estranged ex-wife Kim Carmack at the house at far right in a murder suicide a day earlier, Indianapolis, Friday, April 18, 2014. Robert Scheer/The Star

Officers examine a dark-colored vehicle and remove evidence at the scene of a murder-suicide April 17, 2014, in the 2400 block of Inishmore Court, Indianapolis. The victims were Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department personnel. Brent Drinkut/The Star

Officers examine a dark-colored vehicle and remove evidence at the scene of a murder-suicide April 17, 2014, in the 2400 block of Inishmore Court, Indianapolis. The victims were Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department personnel. Brent Drinkut/The Star

Officers examine a dark-colored vehicle and remove evidence at the scene of a murder-suicide April 17, 2014, in the 2400 block of Inishmore Court, Indianapolis. The victims were Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department personnel. Brent Drinkut/The Star

Tuesday, April 23, 2002: Undercover IMPD officer Kim Carmack is solicited by the driver of a car in a parking lot at the corner of Washington Street and Belmont Avenue, where police conducted a prostitution sting operation. When police approached the vehicle, the driver took off but was was arrested shortly thereafter. John Severson/The Star 2002 file photo

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2. Yes, world: Indiana University freshman Julian Batts knows who Achilles is. But during a "Wheel of Fortune" taping for College Week, he said, the name looked a little unfamiliar. "I was just going to say it how I thought it would sound," Batts, an 18-year-old Carmel High graduate, told The Star about his now-viral flub that pronounced it "A-chillus." Kudos to Batts for handling his 15 minutes of infamy with good grace!

3. Four months after a Butler University student claimed she was raped at an off-campus party, activists called for reform of how the university investigates accusations of sexual assault. More than 100 students and faculty chanted, paraded and made speeches Thursday at a rally fueled by a social media campaign that called attention to the case. "Eliza Quincey"'s alleged attacker has been expelled from the university -- but she has been told he won't be prosecuted because the results of her sexual assault exam have been lost.

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Thursday April 17th, 2014, Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Student Abby Robinson holds a # I Am Eliza Quincey sign. Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Students, Victoria Overdorf (left), and Anna Doloso (right) read excerpts from Eliza Quincy's rape essay. Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincy, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Director of Womens gender, and sexuality studies, Ageeth Slus speaks as Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, rape survivor and faculty member, Dr. Carol Reeves speaks to students about what steps to take in the event of a rape. Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Student Abby Robinson reads excerpts from Eliza Quincey's essay. Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincey, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Students, Victoria Overdorf (left), and Anna Doloso read excerpts from Eliza Quincy's rape essay. Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincy, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Thursday April 17th, 2014, Students, Victoria Overdorf (left), and Anna Doloso read excerpts from Eliza Quincy's rape essay. Butler University students and faculty gathered on campus in support of Butler Student Eliza Quincy, who wrote a essay about her experience reporting her alleged rapist to campus police. Student also read a list of demands aimed at the administration. Michelle Pemberton/The Star

Two young children, oblivious to the enormous Willie The Whale over their shoulders, try to attract a swan in the pond at the Indianapolis Zoo's original E. 30th Street location a week before the zoo opened for its second season in 1965. Larry George/The News

The original Indianapolis Zoo was not yet open when this photo was taken in February 1964. This was the terminal building for the railroad built to carry visitors around the zoo grounds. When the zoo relocated to White River Park in the late 1980s, the zoo train was included. William Oates/The Star

The giant crown featured zoo animals in a changing special exhibit. A whale-shaped aquarium, known as Willie the Whale, a bar for farm animals, chicken hatchery and railroad station can be seen in the background. Indianapolis Star file photo

Head keeper David Collins works with Sophi, a new addition to the Indianapolis Zoo in 1989. The 20-year old African elephant weighed 8,000 pounds and was caputred on the Uganda-Zaire border years before. Mike Fender/The News

Lowell Nussbaum, columnist for The Indianapolis Star and one of the founders of the Indianapolis Zoo, showed off the newest member of the zoo family, a 25-pound Sardinian donkey named Chris. Chris was born two days prior in 1965. STAR/NEWS

Indianapolis residents Lisa Brown, 12, (left) Jody Johnson, 13, and Christina McLinn, 20, were inspecting a new attraction for the Indianapolis Zoo on March 1, 1968. The circus wagon was being donated to the zoo by the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce. file

On June 21, 1987, Dave Hampton waded into the water for a boat while his his son, Tavis, 9, stayed shoreside during an Indianapolis Admirals radio-controlled model boat club event on the pond at the old Indianapolis Zoo in Washington Park. Joe Young/The News

Visitors line up to buy tickets at the old Indianapolis Zoo in this July 1967 photo. Then located at Washington Park on East 30th Street, the zoo charged 75 cents admission for adults and 25 cents for children under 16. Patty Haley / The Indianapolis News

This was the welcome sign at the old Indianapolis Zoo, which was located at Washington Park between East 30th and 34th streets east of Keystone from 1964 through 1987. In 1988, the new zoo opened at White River Park. Tim Halcomb/The News

A cherry picker disguised as a giraffe is occupied by (from left) zoo director Roy Shea, David Neighbours, 11 and Katheryn Betley, vice president of the Indianapolis Zoological Society. The trio were cutting the ribbon on the new Indianapolis Zoo Jan. 11, 1988 Rob Goebel/The Star

Camel rides were offered at the desert biome when the Indianapolis Zoo opened downtown on June 11, 1988. The conservatory (background) was still being constructed and would not open until the following year. News photo by Mike Fender Mike Fender

The sunshine brings out the nicest moments....Pictured here, new mother, LENA, cleans one of her baby tigers as they lay soaking up the rays of unseasonably warm January sunshine at the Indianapolis Zoo in 2001. FRANK ESPICH INDIANAPOLIS STAR

A new baby African elephant born Thursday June 28, reaches out to touch her mothers trunk, 30-year-old Ivory , at a public viewing at the Indianapolis Zoo Monday July 9, 2012. Joe Vitti Indianapolis Star

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5. Two men are trying to do something that's never been done before: put a fan-owned car in the Indianapolis 500. "The People's Car" is the brainchild of longtime friends Travis Tetrault and Jason Godby of Indianapolis, who have formed a race team called CuttersRT partly to help build the appreciation for auto racing they think has been lost. Go to cuttersrt.com, pay your $100, and you too can get your name on the car, which Tetrault and Godby hope to have ready for this year's 500-Mile Race.

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Jason Godby (left), and partner Travis Tetrault of the Cutters RT team, which is trying to raise one million dollars through collecting $100 apiece signatures, and hope to run the car in the upcoming Indianapolis 500, Monday, April 7, 2014.
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6. The Indiana Pacers clinched the No. 1 spot in the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks when the Miami Heat lost to the Washington Wizards 114-93. George Hill said on our "Holding Court" show that the Pacers (and maybe also Pat McAfee) will streak if they win the NBA Championship!

7. Meryl Streep was awarded an honorary degree during her appearance Wednesday at Indiana University in Bloomington. The Oscar-winning actress and director said young women worry too much about their weight. "What makes you strange" is your strength because that's what gets you noticed, she told the crowd.

8. The Westboro Baptist Church announced on its website that it's targeting the Indianapolis 500 this year. That's partly because they frown on racegoers' drunken habits, but also because of the presence of beloved "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" singer Jim Nabors, an openly gay man who married his longtime partner last year. Counter-protests to the protest -- if it even occurs -- include a Facebook event titled "Spread love over Westboro Baptist hate: INDY."

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North Central High School students counter-protest members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., who protested the school’s production of “The Laramie Project,” a play about the 1998 murder and of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, who was gay.
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9. What's it like to have a sleepover at the Speedway? The Star's Dana Benbow got a sneak peek at the new "glamping" site on the track's infield. Fresh flowers, luxurious bedding and a private shower area elevated the stay above the usual camping experience, she writes -- but the main draw was the fabulous view.

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles and his son Carter Boles, 11, get set to check out the "Glamping" site after getting set up in their tent that houses a queen bed and night stands before spending the night at the speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the race. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

A gas fire graces the "Glamping" site at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the race. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

Several hammocks grace the glamping site inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in April. Called Glamptown, the site may be a bit more low-key than camping outside the speedway in the lots. Matt Detrich/The Star

Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles and his son Carter Boles, 11, sort their clothes inside their "Glamping" tent that houses a queen bed and night stands before spending the night at the speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the race. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

The "Glamping" site offers upscale amenities for campers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Up to 150 glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the Indianapolis 500 and May 16th will be the last day to register. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

The "Glamping" site offers upscale amenities for campers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Up to 150 glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the Indianapolis 500 and May 16th will be the last day to register. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

The "Glamping" site offers upscale amenities for campers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Up to 150 glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the Indianapolis 500 and May 16th will be the last day to register. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

The "Glamping" site offers upscale amenities for campers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Up to 150 glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the Indianapolis 500 and May 16th will be the last day to register. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

The "Glamping" site offers upscale amenities for campers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Up to 150 glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the Indianapolis 500 and May 16th will be the last day to register. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

The "Glamping" site offers upscale amenities for campers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Up to 150 glamorous tents, ranging from $650-$1100, will be available to campers three days before the Indianapolis 500 and May 16th will be the last day to register. The price includes tickets to the race as well as Carb Day and Legends Day. Matt Detrich/The Star

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10. Have you seen out the amazing "Avon High School Lip Dub 2014"? It's racked up around 250,000 page views in a week after a tweet from Colts punter Pat McAfee and spots on "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Good Morning America." I'm still geeking out that the video showcasing dozens of students, teachers and activities to this pop-hit mashup is apparently one veeeeery long tracking shot!

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